Lea Seydoux Quotes

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.

A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.

I learned the process of this kind of acting, how things run, how chaotic it can be, and what kind of different muscles you have to flex.

All actors are self-critical.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.

People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.

Acting... honestly, I'm so uncomfortable and so awkward that I could never think about setting foot in a theater room or acting class.

My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

Personally, I'm a little more confident when I have a script.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.